Capacity Factor also covers the ARC100
• This is in short, a small, modular, sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor (SFR) of 50-100 MWe size
• They intend to close the fuel cycle with the original Argonne pyroprocessing system, developed for the IFR. This, as described briefly by the CEA, is a "dry" (non-aqueous) fuel reprocessing cycle, based on electrochemistry in molten salt solvents.
• To simplify fuel reprocessing, the reactor's fuel will be metallic uranium and plutonium
• reprocessing is not integral to the power plant (as in the IFR design). Quite the opposite -- ARC has a very heavy fuel loading and high burnup (80-100 GWd/ton heavy metal), allowing for an extraordinary, 20-year refuelling interval

Jevons Paradox was first suggested by William Stanley Jevons in 1865 in a book called The Coal Question, and essentially claims that as technological improvements increase the efficiency with which a resource is used, use of that resource increases rather than decreases. The classic case in point was that when James Watt invented his coal-fired steam engine, which was drastically more efficient than Thomas Newcomen's earlier design, coal became a more cost effective power source, its range of applications increased, and ultimately, coal consumption boomed.

The argument is made that Jevon Paradox will not happen because we are in a long term recession and any efficiency gains will not result in more growth or usage of resources. The critics point out that China and India and other countries can grow and that the US and Europe will eventually emerge from recession.